On Board Playing Cards
Luc Mertens of Beerse, Belgium has perhaps the world’s largest collection of over 5,000 different airline playing cards. He has also catalogued these cards, and owns the patent for this numbering system. Mr. Mertens has been kind enough to permit us to use images of cards from his collection, and his catalogue numbers for playing cards of Indian airlines like Air-India, Indian Airlines, Modiluft and Jet Airways. All images from his collection have been individually acknowledged below. For further information, please contact him directly at [email protected]. Mr. Mertens not only is an avid collector of airline playing cards, but also of cardgames as well as the little sliding plastic puzzles.
Air-India International deck of two set of playing card.
(NIC)
(NIC)
Series AIC 100
Series AIC 101
Series AIC 102
We got this set of Air-India playing card Type AIC-102-A and AIC-102-B in the Wellcome (a pharma company) gift box. The seller had three identical items for sale, and thus we are not sure how this combination came about. So, We are listing it on our website, but it is possible that the playing cards and the Wellcome gift pack do not belong together.
Series AIC 103
Series AIC 104
Series AIC 105
Series AIC 106
Series AIC 107
NIC
A deck published by a travel agency (Kent Travel in the UK) in cooperation with Air India to promote trips to India back in the seventies.
A deck published by a travel agency (Kent Travel in the UK) in cooperation with Air India to promote trips to India back in the seventies.
Air-India set of two playing card decks
Air-India set of two playing card decks in original leather folder with unused scorecard notepad and pen.
Both these packs do not have Air-India branding, and so may have been replaced by the earlier owner sometime in the past.
Both these packs do not have Air-India branding, and so may have been replaced by the earlier owner sometime in the past.
Pseudo Artefact - Air-India Playing card
This is unlikely to be an Air India issued deck.
This is unlikely to be an Air India issued deck.